My father’s rule was to imagine that you have the solution already. It is a great way to solve problems.
I’d ask him a question: How many horses does it take to do something? And he’d answer right away, “Five horses; can you tell me if I am right or wrong?” By the time I’d figured out that it couldn’t be five, he’d say, “Well if it’s not five, then it must be X. Can you solve for that?” And I could, because the problem was already laid out from the test of whether five horses was correct.
Doing it backward removed the anxiety from the answer. The anxiety, of course, is the fear that the problem can’t be solved—at least not by me.
“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of an empty desk?”
How close are we to the obsolescence point for combustion engines?
“In five or six years, electric vehicles are going to offer 500 miles of range… effectively zero lifetime fuel cost, and zero emissions.”
![I don’t know why critics called the original Mac (1984) a toy.
[model and photo by Chris McVeigh]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/a084d4de87344c269b06782a881d3977/tumblr_midt6bAm551qz6ameo1_400.jpg)
It takes two screwdrivers, a plastic spudger, good vision, and a certain amount of patience to dismantle a 5 year old MacBook Pro.
The resolution
of mysterious problems
are sometimes proven
but coincidental to
seeking their solution.
a troubleshooting tanka
a bitter pot marks
the night shift’s transition
between night and morn.
a graveyard shift haiku
“The best information is the kind that changes us most.”
help the spiders find you
If you’re interested in getting noticed on the internet, update — and try to keep up to date — each of your online profiles, blogs, social media accounts and others sites, with links to all your other online presences. Links are the threads that bind the internet together — and lead the spiders* to you. Without links, there is no web. And without links to you, you might as well be invisible, online.
Oh, it also makes it easier for friends, colleagues and clients to find you. And isn’t that the idea?
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* No, really, in this metaphor, spiders are your friends.
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“Participants receive almost no money, and are expected to do everything themselves, making them vastly better prepared to succeed in business.”
